David Card

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David Card (2006)

David Edward Card (* 1956 in Guelph , Canada ) is a Canadian economist and university professor.

Career, research and teaching

Card studied at Queen's University until 1978 before moving to Princeton University . There he graduated in 1983 with a Ph.D. From 1982 he had taught at the same time as an assistant professor at the University of Chicago , and from 1983 he was an assistant professor at Princeton University. In 1987 he became an economics professor at the university. After ten years, he accepted an appointment at the University of California, Berkeley in 1997 . In 2010/11 he was President of the Society of Labor Economists for one year .

The focus of the work Cards is on poverty and labor research. This includes the causes and effects of racial segregation and immigration, as well as minimum wages and health economics .

Honors

In 1995 Card received the John Bates Clark Medal and in 1998 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . In 2006 he and Alan B. Krueger received the IZA Prize in Labor Economics from the Institute for the Future of Work for analyzing the importance of school education for success in the labor market . The Econometric Society awarded him, together with Dean Hyslop, the Frisch Medal for the essay “Estimating the Effects of a Time-Limited Earnings Subsidy for Welfare Leavers”. In 2014 Card received the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award and in 2019 the Jacob Mincer Prize . For 2020 he was awarded the Doug Purvis Prize , which he had already won once in 1994.

Since 2013 Thomson Reuters has counted him among the favorites for a Nobel Prize ( Thomson Reuters Citation Laureates ) due to the number of his citations .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Awards. econometricsociety.org , accessed on August 16, 2015 .
  2. ↑ 2013 Predictions at Thomson Reuters (sciencewatch.com); Retrieved September 25, 2013

literature

  • Mark Blaug (Ed.): Who's who in economics. 3rd edition, Elgar, Cheltenham [u. a.] 1999, ISBN 1-85898-886-1 , pp. 191-192

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personal data
SURNAME Card, David
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Card, David Edward (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian economist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Guelph , Canada